On Copy-editing:

[I. J. Parker]

Apparently restaurant reviewers are a lot more temperamental than authors:

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/23/mediamonkey

 

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/23/mediamonkey

[Steve Mosby]

The copy-editors' reply is pretty good:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/29/sundaytimes.pressandpub...

And if you've not encountered Giles Coren before, he's famous for his invective. Here is his reply to another restaurant reviewer who mentioned him in a review:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/11/pressandpublishing

[I. J. Parker]

Nice reply. The Giles Coren example below it is poorly written. That sort of takes the fun out of his earlier harangue.

[Dana King]

Yeah. Right or not about copy editors, he did come on too strong, and this second post shows him to be a first class jerk. It also needed some copy editing.

[Lexi Revellian]

Which writer was it who scrawled at the top of the copy editor's version of his typescript, Stet the whole damn thing?

[I. J. Parker]

:) My first encounter with a copy editor involved a deadline, some lousy colored pencils where the lead kept breaking (they never let you use red, because they have dibs on that), and in sheer despair, I ran out and had a stamp made: STET.